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The birth-rate per 1,000 persons living was 26.23,
compared with 28.52 in the preceding year. This is the
lowest rate recorded in any year. The mean rate for the
past 10 years is 29.7. Reference to Table III. will show
that the birth.rate has been undergoing a continuous fall,
broken only by a slight rise in 1884 and in 1891. The
birth.rate in registration London during 1892 was 30.9.
The natural increase of the population, or the excess of
births ever deaths, was 1,871, and the rate of natural
increase was 11.53 per 1,000 living.
The total deaths during the year was 2385,
of which 1,147 were males and 1,238 females. Of these
deaths, however, 211 were of inhabitants from other parts
of London who died in the Workhouse, Middlesex County
Lunatic Asylum, Home for Incurables, St. Anne's Home,
Home for the Dying, &c.
Deaths.
The following Table gives the distribution in the sub.
districts :—